Both parties have been doing that to a lesser degree for a long time. Trump simply unmasks it by making it impossible not to notice. The Pence briefings should give you a good idea of how all of this would've looked without Trump. Same thing just better optics.

I try not to live under a rock, let’s be real. I’m a cop and see things that aren’t reported in media. However, I also try my best to pay attention to my surroundings and with that being said. Our Government is under attack from within. If you don’t believe so, then you probably also believe that this is the first time the Corona virus has been identified.

Think about what’s transpired over the last few months. The government has presented every possible demographic including a self proclaimed socialist as a democratic candidate because they fear something they can’t control.

The impeachment hoax failed and immediately Pelosi vowed to exhaust efforts in overthrowing Trump. If you currently can see this post then until last week you were living in the most thriving economy this nation has ever seen in my lifetime. Only due to the fact that the person in control couldn’t be bought.

If you think for one second this “pandemic” is not media driven, and controlled by the radical people in powerful places....well...go back to sleep under the rock you crawled out from. Oh, and go ahead at this point and click on my name and follow the steps to unfriend or unfollow me as well because you really aren’t going to like this.

This thing has killed less people in the same time frame then cigarettes, cancer, drunk driving, domestic violence, car crashes, cross stitching accidents (j/k on the last one but probably close), stabbings, overdoses, and please don’t get me started on abortion.

Wake up!!! This is what the beginning of socialism looks like! They are controlling what you buy...bc it’s what you think you need, where you go...bc it’s where they tell you not to go, and how to live...bc you now fear the very existence of anything outside of your home and control.

They are leading with fear. Causing you to panic like sheep.

They are crashing the stock market to run on a failing economy, because it’s all they have left. What is this saying to all of the countries that have opposed us for decades but, couldn’t defeat us?

It’s saying...biological war fare will make these idiots glued to CNN and every other liberal news source panic and run for the hills.

You don’t need hand sanitizer, toilet paper, and Lysol. You need common sense, a sense of direction, faith, a will to fight, and of course guns!

they are all over FB, YT, and Twitter. As in, millions of people, and not just in US, but similar-minded (right-wing nutjobs) even in European countries, including where I wouldn't have expected such idiocy, such as Iceland, Finland, etc.

near perfect overlap with anti-vaxxers, chemtrail-believers, 9/11-truthers, etc, and a massive overlap also with flat-earthers.

it is all the same people, and they also love Trump, even if they are from Iceland or Finland.

I'm against the death penalty myself but Its still around for the most serious crimes and they just killed an innocent man in alabama so I'd be down if the tapes are real.

I know he'd never get it. HE will never see prison if we're being realistic and if he does, he will certainly be pardoned eventually. Hell, the realistic question in this country is if he will even lose his seat.

This is why Bernie is against taking big donations and why a lot of us would never vote for someone who does. They aren't working for us.

[Edited on March 20, 2020 at 12:55 AM. Reason : no idea how bernie got brought into this thread. you are wild for that]

With all the people who are all of a sudden all about the existence of the coronavirus who don't understand why "everyone is being so partisan towards Trump when he's trying to guide God's chosen people through this pandemic," I give it 3-4 days before Trump and his acolytes place the blame firmly where it belongs.

^^ they already tried that with the H1N1 trope, and that wasn't getting much traction, so Trump shifted his focus to blaming China (kinda worked as a distraction, but petered out quickly), and then Millennials on Spring Break (didn't work, because YOLO), so now he's going back to downplaying this whole thing and acting like it's going to blow over in two weeks.

"Our people want to return to work. They will practice Social Distancing and all else, and Seniors will be watched over protectively & lovingly. We can do two things together. THE CURE CANNOT BE WORSE (by far) THAN THE PROBLEM! Congress MUST ACT NOW. We will come back strong!"

Legit question: if all these old people drop dead and die from corona in their home, I'm assuming there's no real reason to test corposes, thus adding to the death toll, right? If so, that may be good news for Democrats, come November.

^They would literally prefer to let millions of Americans die rather than give them the idea that the state could use its power to marshal the productive resources of the country to benefit its citizenry.

That's what this comes down to.

If millions of people have to die to preserve a decaying capitalist ideology, then that's what the state is prepared to do. It's not negligence, it's intentional.

They are making a choice. If you and your loved ones have to die at the altar of enterprise and private profits, then so be it.

These people are literally okay with sentencing thousands of poor people to death to protect the market.

It's genuine psychopathy carried out via mundane acts of stupidity and rank careerism. It's what Hannah Arendt referred to as the "Banality of Evil"

Quote :

"Her thesis is that Eichmann was actually not a fanatic or a sociopath, but instead an extremely average and mundane person who relied on cliché defenses rather than thinking for himself, and was motivated by professional promotion rather than ideology. Banality, in this sense, does not mean that Eichmann's actions were in any way ordinary, or even that there is a potential Eichmann in all of us, but that his actions were motivated by a sort of stupidity which was wholly unexceptional"

Maybe they're in denial about this, or maybe they don't care, the difference doesn't really matter, but they just legitimately think poor people are disposable and that they only exist to serve the market.

They are incapable of imagining a world where the market is ever interrupted and profits go unrealized. It's this stupid adherence to "jobs, jobs, jobs" mantra without any understanding that it is the power of labor that creates the wealth they are trying to protect.

There will be no "economy" to save when scores of bodies are piling up on the streets, because there will not be enough bodies to man the factories or enough bodies to buy the products. But these GOP fanatics are incapable of seeing past their stupid little nostrils to even notice the long term economic impact they are creating, and then end result will be mass graves.

And it's especially troubling, because if people rightly refuse to leave their homes and apartments to risk their lives for minimum wage during a pandemic, these GOP psycho's will forcibly evict them and throw them on the streets to die during a plague that is rapidly sweeping the nation. They will give them the ultimatum of either facing homelessness during a pandemic and possibly dying, vs going to work during a pandemic and also possibly dying while infecting more people.